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by rogerdickey 1905 days ago
How does it stay up as much as it does :)
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"And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."[1]

1. https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Blood, sweat, tears and caffeine.
also, some arcane shell script written by a retired engineer somewhere in the early start of the company.